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try the latter being very smooth, with a prominent calyx, while 

 this is rather uneven, with a somewhat sunken basin. The 

 young wood is very stout and blunt, yellowish-brown, and the 

 tree bears very young. (Part of the stock in this country 

 seems stunted ; it may be renovated by severe pruning back, 

 and grafting on thrifty stocks.) This is a pear that every 

 amateur will cultivate. 



Fruit large, one-sided, pyriform, rather uneven in its surface. 

 Skin deep yellow at maturity, with a remarkably rich crimson 

 cheek. Stalk quite stout, rather more than one inch long, 

 curved, sometimes placed in a blunt hollow, but usually thick- 

 ening into the fruit. Calyx open, large, set in a shallow, 

 slightly furrowed basin. Flesh white, very juicy, melting and 

 sweet ; and when in perfection, buttery, and delicious. Sep- 

 tember. 



124. FULTON. Man. Ken. 



This American 

 pear is a native of 

 Maine, and is a seed- 

 ling, from the farm of 

 Mrs. Fulton, of Top- 

 sham, in that state. 

 It is very hardy, and 

 bears every year 

 abundant crops o* 

 nice, small, gray- 

 russet pears, which, 

 if picked pretty ear- 

 ly and ripened in the 

 house, are of very 

 excellent quality. 

 Ripened on the tree 

 they are worthless. 

 Young shoots rather 

 slender, and reddish- 

 brown. 



Fruit below medi- 

 um size, roundish, 

 flattened. Skin, at 

 first, entirely gray- 

 russet in colour, but 



Fig. 171. Fulton. 



at maturity, of a dark cinnamon russet. Stalk one to two 

 inches lonfj, slender, planted in a narrow cavity. Calyx with 

 long segments, sunk in an uneven hollow. Flesh half buttery, 

 moderately juicy, with a sprightly, agreeable flavour. Seeds 

 compressed, October and November 



